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Student center(ed): Is the student union the key to retention?

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College educators across Southern California share a common struggle: How to keep their students on campus throughout the day despite scattered class schedules and competing off-campus activities. Appropriately categorized as “commuter schools,” most community colleges do not offer on-campus student housing.

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Commercial Construction Strategies: Flagship Stores to Footprint Expansion

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With the high level of pedestrian as well as vehicle traffic along the Mag Mile, simply scheduling the delivery of construction materials and equipment can be one of the project’s more complicated planning aspects. And, of course, the desire to use union vs non-union labor can dramatically influence costs and timelines.

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BUSINESS REPORT: California Is Preparing For The Future

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Jerry Brown has signed SB 1029, legislation which will create thousands of new jobs in California by modernizing regional transportation systems and linking them to the state’s future high-speed rail line. billion of economic investment in Northern California, $2.8 billion in Southern California and $6 billion in the Central Valley.

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Amtrak Plans $6.5B Redevelopment of D.C.'s Union Station | ENR.

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Survey Schedule. ENR California. Union Station. ENR Top Lists. ENR Sourcebooks. ENR Midwest. ENR Mountainstates. ENR New York. ENR Southeast. ENR Southwest. ENR Texas & Louisiana. This content is available for purchase. It is FREE of charge. for ENR subscribers. Amtrak Plans $6.5B Redevelopment of D.C.s

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Managing from the Mother Ship: How a National Commercial Contractor Operates

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.): Having an extensive network of highly qualified subcontractors is key to managing construction projects on a national basis, as Englewood Construction is doing with this Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar currently underway in Pasadena, California.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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Furthermore, Arizona is a right-to-work state with a very low unionization rate, one of the lowest unemployment insurance tax rates in the nation, and workers compensations rates that are much lower than the national average. In 2016, U.S.

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Ports And FTZs: Enter With Less Risk

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AOE’s can range from large urban airports with heavy scheduled passenger service to small rural airports serving general aviation. Nine miles of rail, able to accommodate up to 250 railcars with rail served by Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Kansas City Southern. 20-acre reinforced concrete lay-down yard.

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